Starting in 1967, the San Diego-bred pop group Gary Puckett & The Union Gap had six consecutive Top 10 hits, including such soaring songs as “Woman, Woman,” “Young Girl” and “Lady Willpower.” But by the time the not-quite-inspirational “Let’s Give Adam and Eve Another Chance” came out in late 1969, the band’s visit to pop paradise was quickly drawing to a close. The Union Gap was defunct barely a year later.

“By the time 1971 came around, no one wanted to hear about the ’60s anymore,” lamented Puckett, 69, who performs Wednesday at Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay with The Turtles, The Buckinghams, The Grass Roots and former Monkees mainstay Micky Dolenz.

“I thought the success I’d had with The Union Gap would sustain me through a bit of a hiatus and that I could take a year off, write songs and then be welcomed back. But that wasn’t the case, because of the social and political climate, the Vietnam War, the changing of the guard.”

Other creative issues were in play, he recalled.

“Columbia Records told me: ‘We know how to make you rich and famous (as a solo act) — just shut up and sing.’ I said: ‘I’d like to have a little more control over my life.’ ”

By the late 1970s, Puckett returned to San Diego, where he had moved with his family from Idaho in 1960, after graduating from high school. He formed a duo with Paul Martin that drew appreciative crowds to such local nightspots as Boom Trenchard’s, after which he teamed with the local band SRO.

“We worked at Anthony’s, across from the Star of India, and it was wildly successful,” Puckett said, speaking from his home in Florida.

Another band or two followed, including one that featured former Fingers guitarist Billy Thompson and was briefly managed by local music scribe Thomas K. Arnold. In 1984, Puckett hit the road with The Turtles on the maiden “Happy Together” tour, which capitalized on the sudden nostalgia for ’60s pop and rock inspired by the hit movie “The Big Chill” and oldies radio.

More “Happy Together” tours followed in 1985 and ’86. The tour that brings Puckett here next week is also a “Happy Together” outing, although “The Union Gap” is a house band that also backs the tour’s other four co-headlining acts.

“It’s really an entertaining, wonderful show,” said Puckett, who also tours with his own band and has four siblings who live in North County. “It is a little rigorous being on the road, so I have to take advantage of eating well and resting. I’m an old guy!”